COMMON INTERNET ABBREVIATIONS.

In Internet forums and similar gatherings of cognoscenti, writers often use abbreviations for the sake of efficient self-expression. Here are some of the more common abbreviations you will encounter in Internet communications:

AFAIK: And furthermore, all is kaput.

BTW: Big tall weeds.

FWIW: Found watermelon, ingested watermelon.

IMHO: I may have overeaten.

OTOH: Over the old hamburger.

ROFL: Random outburst from lungs.

TOS: Terms of slavery.

TL;DR: Tried levitating; damaged rump.

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SONG OF THE MEASURING SPOONBILLS.

1. In Gilchrist County, Florida,
          just west of Waxworths Hobble,  
     There’s a place in the sun  
     Where the caraways run  
And the measuring spoonbills wobble.

Refrain:
Oh, they wobble all day,
And they wobble away
     Over gravel and pebble and cobble,
In a place in the sun
Where the caraways run
     Just west of Waxworths Hobble.

2. The tourists come from sixteen states 
          to watch the spoonbills bobble
     Where they wobble away
     By the Circle K
On the road through Waxworths Hobble.

Refrain.

3. But the caraways don’t care at all, 
          and they plot and scheme to nobble  
     All the tourist buses
     That cause all the fusses
Where the measuring spoonbills wobble.

Refrain.

4. But a caraway is a small, small thing, 
          and it can’t make too much trobble,
     So the tourists have fun
     While the caraways run
And the measuring spoonbills wobble.

Refrain.

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IS IT BAD IF…?

A Windows user asked this question, and Dr. Boli thought he would refer it to the Windows experts among his readers:

Windows Modules Installer Worker, Windows Problem Reporting, Windows Problem Reporting, Windows Problem Reporting.

Is it bad if the top tasks in the Task Manager, sorted by “total disk utilization across all physical drives,” look like this? We can see that there are three instances of Windows Problem Reporting running at once and wearing down the drive quite a bit, while the most disk-hungry process is Windows Modules Installer Worker, which we suppose is installing another instance of Windows Problem Reporting.

Dr. Boli’s assumption was that this was just how Windows works. Perhaps it is reporting the useful diagnostic information that the computer is running Windows, which it correctly identifies as a problem. But someone who knows Windows better might be able to give us a more nuanced answer.

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From DR. BOLI’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISINFORMATION.

Yankee Doodle by Thomas Nast

Yankee Doodle.—Because the facts of the case did not fit the meter or rhyme scheme, the musical biography of Yankee Doodle leaves out the important information that, on the same occasion when he stuck a feather in his cap and called it Macaroni, he also stuck a carnation in his lapel and called it Cheese.

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